OddThinking

I found the whole My Phototown site just a little bit creepy. It feels like it was written by the in-house developers of their product support web-site.

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Here are the lessons I have learned from using my new remote flash configuration at a party (which I used for practice) and a theatre-based circus performance.

I recently purchased some new flashgun-related camera equipment. I am out of my depth. I need to have mastered it in two weeks for an event, and so I have been practising, with rather mixed results. This is a brain-dump to help me think through the issues.

So, I have lots of photos, and some are duplicated on several web-sites, with no reference to the original source. I want to detect matches, so I can move them (and their associated meta-data) all to a single yet-to-be-determined destination.

But here’s the snag. Some of the photos have been made into different sizes and qualities for web-viewing. It would save me time if I could automatically detect this. I need an equivalent to SoundEx that works on images, so images have the same hash even if they are resized.

How would you do that? If you answered “Google it, and find what the standard solution is”, you might be smarter than me. This article is about what I did instead.

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